Quotes
With solitude comes freedom.
People happy in love have an air of intensity
'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil
Math is a faith of believing something can be deduced from reality to idea and then back to reality.
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech
I think it better that in times like these a poets mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right
Love is done when Love's begun,
Sages say,
But have Sages known?
Truth adjourn your Boon
Without Day.
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers
“I wonder how they found their soulmates
From among a crowd so big
In a world so wide”
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may
People love the beads. Everyone really loves to catch them
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum
Frost is the most sophisticated of poets
Mathematics is in irony. It simplifies things in a very complicated way.
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash
I wanted to be successful, not famous
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top
If ever my hand will raise to your face, it would be just to wipe your tears.
Truth often lies in those words we quickly say... Or in those we hold inside forever ...
"I'll spend my whole life pleasing people."
"The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
The American Poet Who Went Home Again (2009)
' Suspicion Inquiring minded questions that eradicate freely out of your mouth.'
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In una dittatura devi stare attento a quello che dici.
In una democrazia puoi dire quello che vuoi...
l'importante è che non cerchi di dimostrarlo.
[English Translation]
A threat against the environment is a menace to the human nature.
"Fiction is my natural skin, even you strip my skin you can never take it away from me."
And all we feared inside the night
shows true in morning's biased light.
Industry in Morning (poem)
If I'd ever grown prosperous like Sahjahan was, I'd not have waited for my beloved's death before I erected a Taj Mahal.
Lies as truth, in eyes truth is lie
"Poetry is not just a combination of suprising phrases or words, It is the combination of our emotions and feelings with words."
Passion has nothing to do with it. I’m a perfectionist, and it’s easier to get 5 words exactly right and in the right order than 5,000.
"Minimalism, Thy Name is Benjamin C. Krause," interview by Rumjhum Biswas on Every Day Fiction
Never believe one at the only hand...but only infer one's reality
... having the open gesture.
I recall you with pride in my eyes and I remember days in our prime
When we sought to find, our smiles from hidden places
Like treasures mounted somewhere.
I recall you with pride in my eyes and I remember days in our prime
When we sought to find, our smiles from hidden places
Like treasures mounted somewhere.
I enjoy the satisfaction I get when people read and enjoy my poems or stories. I like to know that I’ve struck a chord with someone.
Leaf Garden Magazine, Issue 9
Poetry is a combination of images and music written in words.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
All mankind love a lover.
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Do all things with love.
